Friday, May 26, 2017

Front Door: Color & Font

Rarely do I design commercial projects. When I do commercial, it's most often for the owner of the business who has already hired me for their home, deciding later to strong arm me for their business. Most of the commercial work has been small businesses, though I've done one the size of a college campus in a small town. Never have I felt out of my element, curious that I don't seek commercial too. Oddly, when first asked to do commercial I always say, No. This type of 'No' is pure catnip to all who've made the request. A rabbit hole for another day.
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Yesterday Pinterest got into my veins with several pics of commercial front doors. Pinterest is my go-to quick time filler. What's the harm of beauty, inspiration and a little sideways learning?
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Banner Pinterest day, yesterday, learned with a commercial storefront, a small business, all you need is Color & Font. They draw the eye, then through the window/s, a focal point. If you've read my blog any time at all, you know 'trinities' are magnetic sparkly pixie dust to me.
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Here's the golden nugget I can't translate. Yet.
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If a small business only needs Color & Font to draw the eye, with delight, what is the equivalent pairing, for a residential front door? And what is the residential focal point prong, creating a trinity, with the pairing of Color & Font. At present I think the answer is fluid within a fixed realm. Dynamic in a static setting. Further, once deduced, I know there will be several templates within the residential front door design.
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Pure delight, a shiny new discovery to be made.
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About age 6, I remember vividly finding the old 'toy' clock Santa brought me 'years' earlier, in the back of my closet. Surely, time to throw it away. Before throwing it away, I HAD to know how the inner mechanism worked, to move the hands. Went to the kitchen, got a steak knife, went back to my room, hacked into the back of the clock, and saw all its plastic moving parts, and figured out how it worked. Which was a lot better than merely learning to tell time. Fate wasn't kind, mom passed by my room, clock & steak knife in hand. "What have you done?" Yep, got in trouble. Can you believe it? I couldn't either, all I was doing was learning.
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Adore the phase of reaching toward discovery. As much as discovery. This time, you're in the mix. Tell me, How does the pairing of Color & Font translate to you, for your residential front door?